The Silence
BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!
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9/23/1963Runtime
95 minsOverview
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
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A chamber piece of mounting dread and fracturing desire: three people trapped in a hotel on the edge of an unseen catastrophe, unable to bridge the silences between them. Bergman's formal precision makes every glance and absence feel unbearably charged.
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Ingrid Thulin
Ester
Gunnel Lindblom
Anna
Birger Malmsten
Bartender
Håkan Jahnberg
Hotel Steward
Jörgen Lindström
Johan
Kotti Chave
Officer in the Train Compartment
Lissi Alandh
Woman in Variety Hall (uncredited)
Leif Forstenberg
Man in Variety Hall (uncredited)
Eskil Kalling
Bar Owner (uncredited)
Karl-Arne Bergman
Paperboy (uncredited)
Carl Andersson
Olof Huddén
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